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Niger-Congo Language Family
95% of people in sub-Saharan Africa speak languages of Niger-Congo. This includes six branches of hard to classify languages. The other 5% speak languages in Khoisan or Nilo-Saharan language families.
Several million South Africans speak speak Indo-European- English and Afrikaan.
The largest branch is Benue-Congo, the most important language Swahili.